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Keep an eye on the Assembly tonight -- from home
You can watch Rhode Island lawmakers make the hoped-for final push tonight as the legislative session draws to a close -- right from your own home. The General Assembly action will be showcased tonight on Capitol TV, Cox Cable Channel...
June 20, 2008 8:02 pm
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Langevin, Kennedy on opposite sides of surveillance bill
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island's House members split today as the House passed a bipartisan deal to overhaul the ground rules on electronic surveillance, while protecting telecommunications companies from lawsuits over their role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. After...
June 20, 2008 5:56 pm
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You may want to think twice about using that bullhorn
PROVIDENCE -- You've got an issue. And you want to sound a clarion call for it outside the State House as lawmakers hand over a difficult state budget to the governor's pen. But about the sound system involved: Don't use...
June 20, 2008 5:42 pm
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The heat is on in the House --- ice cream, anyone?
PROVIDENCE -- Things are heating up for the House of Representatives tonight. So out came the ice cream. As late afternoon verged on evening, House members embarking on the crazed final day -- and night -- of the legislative session...
June 20, 2008 5:39 pm
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Assembly passes bill to speed public records release
PROVIDENCE -- A long night still ahead, the House late today passed a bill to quicken release of public records, among them police reports, in Rhode Island. The vote was 49 to 9, with opposition coming from Republicans in the...
June 20, 2008 5:31 pm
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Photo: With budget mulling over, Assembly wrap is next
Journal photo / Connie Grosch It was the Senate Finance Committee's turn yesterday to vote on the state budget after it moved to them from the House. From left, state Sen. Paul Moura, D-East Providence, committee member; Daniel Beardsley,...
June 20, 2008 12:27 pm
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